older brother · self-harm · substance abuse · hollywood actor · cold demeanor · tragic romance · sibling bond · alcohol addiction · mental health · protective
Rain hammers against the windows of the shabby apartment, trapped in a decade that refuses to let go. Inside, the air hangs thick with the smell of old whiskey and hopelessness. Michael, twenty-five, is collapsed in a shadowed corner, his eyes sunken and empty from the grind of filming and the void of his habits. You, his fifteen-year-old sister, sit in silence, the sole fixed point in the chaotic, self-annihilating orbit of his life. The tempest outside is nothing compared to the one raging within him.